Huntington MS 82623

Title Untitled
Archive Huntington Library
Call Number Huntington MS 82623
Complete Yes
Description

Anonymous, 1724–1729, with additional items copied in the 1690s and early 1730s. 

A book bound subsequent to copying.

115 poems.

Contains a Historical Dialogue in Scripture, as well as addresses, ballads, epigrams, epitaphs, extracts, poems and verses. Interest in literary celebrities like Pope and Swift.

Rose Tavern circle

Format Small quarto
Book Size 18.4cm x 14.6cm
Filled Page Count 180 pages
Item Count 124
Poem Count 115
Periods
First Line Index No
Digitized No
Region
Additional Genres Prose - miscellaneous
Print Sources
Major Themes

Major themes prominent among the manuscript contents in alphabetical order.

Minor Themes

Other themes of interest among the manuscript contents in alphabetical order.

Links
Bibliography
Citation

Huntington MS 82623.” Manuscript Verse Miscellanies, 1700–1820, edited by Betty A. Schellenberg, Simon Fraser University, https://mvm.dhil.lib.sfu.ca/manuscript/358. Accessed .

Created 2020-04-18 5:06:12 PM
Updated 2023-07-25 11:28:34 AM
First Line Context
Boy! bring an Ounce of Freeman's best

p. 160

Local title: "On a Pipe of Tobacco. Jan. 1735/6."

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variant: n/a

Other: Attributed date: 1735/6.

Hail, happy bride! for thou art truly blest

p. 54

Local title: On the Death of Mrs. Bowes.

Attributed author: Lady Mary Wortley Montague[sic].

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/s

Other: n/a

Hear all you Friends to Knighthood

pp. 38–39.

Local title: On Sr. Wm. Morgan Knight of the Bath loseing the Badge of the Order. To the Tune of A Noble Race was Shinkin. 

Attributed author: n/a

Adaptation: n/a

Other variant: First line: Hear all the Friends to Knighthood...

Other: Attributed date: 1726/7.

I Ask not Wit, nor Beauty do I crave

p. 79

Local title: The Wish

Attributed author: Mis. Bell Morton

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: Included in a series of poems called "Bathinalia" in the Table of Contents. Followed by The Answer by T. Harvey (Nature perversely...)

Nature, perversly to your wish, has given

p. 79

Local title: The Answer

Attributed author: T. Harvey

Adaptation: n/a

Other variants: n/a

Other: Included in a series of poems called "Bathinalia" in the Table of Contents. Following The Wish by Morton. 

Feature Note
Binding

Post-bound. Binding is tight.

Calf.

Hands

Single.

Pencil notes on flyleaf appear to be in a different hand.

Item formatting

Black ruled lines separating items and underneath titles.

Ownership mark

Bookplate of Rev. William Long.

Page layout

Paginated (but in segments that do not accord).

Table of Contents

Yes. The original Table of Contents (up to p.3) is missing many items that have been added to the bottoms of the pages or inserted in gaps between original items; but the rest of p. 3 and its verso contains many or all of these added items, not in the page order, so they were presumably added to the Table of Contents as gaps in the book were filled in.